Dictionary

appraisement en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English appraise Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English appraisement From appraise + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) The act of appraising.
   • Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality. 1891, Thomas Hardy, “THE CONVERT”, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the sixth (The Convert), page 158:
   • she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement 1887, Hall Caine, chapter 37, in The Deemster, volume 3, London: Chatto & Windus, page 140:
   • I was obliged to stay till this afternoon, to settle several necessary matters, and to direct inventories to be taken, in order for appraisement; for every thing is to be turned into money, by his will. 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 77:
   • […] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng. 1549, An Acte of the Relief Graunted to the Kinges Majestie by the Lordes and Commons, London:
   • A good name―what is called prestige―meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go. 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Penguin, published 1954, Part 1, p. 27:

Forms

Relateds

prizement

Synonyms

appraisal